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elvis presley in memphis

Posted on September 16, 2012 by peter bell

Elvis Presley’s family moved to Memphis, TN from Tupelo, MS in search of a better life.  The young Elvis would have been 13 years old when he arrived in Memphis on September 12, 1948.  The city of Memphis became synonymous with Elvis, and a number of locations from those early days (before Elvis became an […]

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Johnny Cash locations

Posted on June 12, 2012 by peter bell

Trying to tell the story of Johnny Cash’s life is like trying to shoehorn a tall-tale into a prefabricated narrative- you may get some of it into a tidy story, but the rest of it spills over and off the page (see the affably bland film, Walk the Line, as an exercise in sanitized myth […]

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